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Awakening to Justice
Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past
Author: Estrelda Y. Alexander, Esther Chung-Kim, David D. Daniels III, The Dialogue on Race and Faith Project, Sègbégnon Mathieu Gnonhossou, Diane Leclerc, Albert G. Miller, Christopher P. Momany, R. Matthew Sigler, Douglas M. Strong, Jemar Tisby
Narrator: Diana Blue
Unabridged: 7 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: christianaudio.com
Published: 03/26/2024
Category: Religion - Christian Church - History
Synopsis
In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty-first-century Christians to address the reality of racism today. They invited a multiracial team of fourteen scholars to join in, thus launching the Dialogue on Race and Faith Project.
Awakening to Justice presents the groundbreaking work of these scholars. In addition to reflecting on Ingraham's journal, chapters also explore the life and writings of two of Ingraham's Black colleagues, James Bradley and Nancy Prince.
Through considering connections between the revivalist, holiness, and abolitionist movements; the experiences of enslaved and freed people; abolitionists' spiritual practices; various tactics used by abolitionists; and other themes, the authors offer insight and hope for Christians concerned about racial justice. They highlight how Christians associated with Charles Finney's style of revivalism formed intentional, countercultural communities such as Oberlin College to be exemplars of interracial cooperation and equality.